Re: Re: Refresh Publication takes hours and doesn´t finish

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I wrote:
> PegoraroF10 <marcos@f10.com.br> writes:
>> I tried sometime ago ... but with no responses, I ask you again.
>> pg_publication_tables is a view that is used to refresh publication, but as
>> we have 15.000 tables, it takes hours and doesn't complete. If I change that
>> view I can have an immediate result. The question is: Can I change that view
>> ? There is some trouble changing those system views ?

> Hmm ... given that pg_get_publication_tables() shouldn't return any
> duplicate OIDs, it does seem unnecessarily inefficient to put it in
> an IN-subselect condition.  Peter, is there a reason why this isn't
> a straight lateral join?  I get a much saner-looking plan from

>     FROM pg_publication P, pg_class C
> -        JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
> -   WHERE C.oid IN (SELECT relid FROM pg_get_publication_tables(P.pubname));
> +        JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace),
> +        LATERAL pg_get_publication_tables(P.pubname)
> +   WHERE C.oid = pg_get_publication_tables.relid;

For the record, the attached seems like what to do here.  It's easy
to show that there's a big performance gain even for normal numbers
of tables, eg if you do

    CREATE PUBLICATION mypub FOR ALL TABLES;
    SELECT * FROM pg_publication_tables;

in the regression database, the time for the select drops from ~360ms
to ~6ms on my machine.  The existing view's performance will drop as
O(N^2) the more publishable tables you have ...

Given that this change impacts the regression test results, project
rules say that it should come with a catversion bump.  Since we are
certainly going to have a catversion bump before beta2 because of
the pg_statistic_ext permissions business, that doesn't seem like
a reason not to push it into v12 --- any objections?

            regards, tom lane

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 566100d..52a6c31 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -258,9 +258,10 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_publication_tables AS
         P.pubname AS pubname,
         N.nspname AS schemaname,
         C.relname AS tablename
-    FROM pg_publication P, pg_class C
-         JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
-    WHERE C.oid IN (SELECT relid FROM pg_get_publication_tables(P.pubname));
+    FROM pg_publication P,
+         LATERAL pg_get_publication_tables(P.pubname) GPT,
+         pg_class C JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
+    WHERE C.oid = GPT.relid;

 CREATE VIEW pg_locks AS
     SELECT * FROM pg_lock_status() AS L;
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 0c392e5..4363ca1 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1441,10 +1441,10 @@ pg_publication_tables| SELECT p.pubname,
     n.nspname AS schemaname,
     c.relname AS tablename
    FROM pg_publication p,
+    LATERAL pg_get_publication_tables((p.pubname)::text) gpt(relid),
     (pg_class c
      JOIN pg_namespace n ON ((n.oid = c.relnamespace)))
-  WHERE (c.oid IN ( SELECT pg_get_publication_tables.relid
-           FROM pg_get_publication_tables((p.pubname)::text) pg_get_publication_tables(relid)));
+  WHERE (c.oid = gpt.relid);
 pg_replication_origin_status| SELECT pg_show_replication_origin_status.local_id,
     pg_show_replication_origin_status.external_id,
     pg_show_replication_origin_status.remote_lsn,